Particularly important to me, still have family survivors of kindertransport. And family members whose parents didn't manage to escape the Soviet persecution that never seems to be mentioned.
Thank you for your posts on this subject.
cloggy

A blood test t GP saihat can predict more accurately how long you may have live. Link. . I'm not too sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing unless you can do do something to cling onto your perch a bit longer. Had to laugh when I saw this. Just had blood and urine tests. GP said when read...

Hello again Cloggy, nice to hear from you again. "Yan, Tan, Tether, Mether, Pimp, Sether, Heather, Hother, Dother, Dick". My dad used it on occasion, no real association with farming but his dad my grandfather had. He was a true dalesman, (Dent). Farmer, horseman, carter, we even have him as a tink...

I hope you both saw that northern sheep farmer on the TV who demonstrated the sheep counting. When he got to 20 he took a pebble out of his pocket and said "After 20 we use technology". :smile: Ni, I haven't seen that. Many Nordic and Germanic languages don't have words for numbers over 20. Old Eng...

[quote=Wendyf post_id=113713 time=1518341816 user_id=73] Hello Cloggy, good to hear from you again. Did you manage a trip to this area last year? Hello Wendy, I managed a very frustrating trip mid July 2017. It was supposed to be a respite trip, but ended up visiting Lancaster and Blackpool heart un...

'Age cannot wither, nor custom stale, her infinite variety' as I look at my 86 year old Alzheimer stricken dear wife, sorting out her bag with its precious bits and bobs, and giving the bedroom floor its almost permanent sweep up. I knew old age had struck me recently when a brother asked 'have you ...

Greetings to all. Just logged in for the first time in a while, and found this thread very interesting. Languages and dialects are fascinating, and I find that in my dotage I am gradually going back to using a lot of dialect words from my youth, when I worked with my dad at Higher Reedly. This broug...

Hello everybody, today I shall be mainly busy as usual with Mrs.C; but also starting to think about packing for my trip to UK next week. Since we've been experiencing 30+ temperatures for the last several weeks, and the countryside all around us is being rapidly destroyed by bush fires, looking forw...

Are you visiting Earby & Kelbrook Cloggy? I just remembered helping a lady with her family history recently who mentioned, just before she left the library, that she was married to a Garlick and had an old presentation watch in her possession given to someone for 50 years service in the calico indu...

Lovely to hear from you Cloggy! I hope all goes well for your trip..... Do you re ly want to visit a country in chaos? Will they let you back into Italy? Stanley, I will just be travelling from one basket case country to another it seems. Whether or not Italy let me back in will probably depend on ...

Interesting medical experiences with the EU card,all sounds familiar. Since Italy is a nation of hypochondriacs, here in our Southern Italian village, we have a choice of 4 GPs in one joint surgery. You just walk in and join the queue for the GP you wish to see. If you are on a regular prescription ...

Never thought I'd be so grateful to technology and t'internet, and boards such as this. Here I am in my dotage and splendid Italian isolaton, surrounded by friends and cousins I've never met in the flesh. Also starting to receive snail mail letters from both Dinsdales/Spencers/Crabtrees. Viva oneguy...

Thank you eVerYBody on oneguyfrombarlick. I keep trying to send this thank you, but my computer seems a bit temeprmental. Hope this one makes it. Wonderful site, wonderful peopple, especially Stanley and Wendy.Must make the effort to visit more often.
kind regards to all, cloggy

I wonder if Bruff is in Italy yet for his holiday. I'm looking forward to hearing about his experiences there. I read that Brits visiting museums and other tourist sites in Italy are already being regarded as non-EU and charged a much higher rate for entry. When they complain and point out that we'...

One of the big problems of course is the UK public's interpretation of 'freedom of movement'. There is indeed freedom of movement within the EU; but that is not 'freedom to stay'. Every where else there are mechanisms in place to ensure that after the 90 day 'freedom' period has expired; you can sho...

Tizer wrote:I saw a discussion in the newspaper recently about the difference between a pie and a tart. There was debate about which should have a top and/or a bottom, and whether there were regional differences.

Hello everybody, talking to no. 1 son in Ireland yesterday who lives in Galway, we got on to the subject of Gaelic. Does anybody on the forum know or remember Dale's farmers counting their sheep in a form of Gaelic? I'm sure my dad at one point tried to teach me, or told me about it. many thanks, cl...

Good morning Stanley, and thank you. I'll mail you asap that would be great. Having been out of contact for a lot of years, the motorbike Eddie and the farming Harrisons don't ring any bells. I made the fatal mistake of dedicating my working and business life entirely to work and business. 'We get t...

Stanley, that is all wonderful stuff; and as we said a very small world. That picture of Uncle Eric is just like I remember him. The only photo I have of him is a beautiful one of him and his new bride Liesl when they were married. That must have been during the war, because I can remember staying w...